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Color or shade of color; tint; dye. "Flowers of all hue." Milton. Hues of the rich unfolding morn. Keble.

Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many- hued. Chaucer.

Destitute of color. Hudibras.

One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.

Minced meat. [Obs.] Bacon.

A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

e skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll…

Red. [R.] Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Herbert.

of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.

of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! Shak.

Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form. [Archaic] For him which is so bright of blee. Lament. of Mary Magd. That boy has a strong blee of his father. Forby.

A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

to put forth (blossoms or flowers). The odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue. Milton.

Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance. Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. Pope.

make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.